All Posts Tagged With: "kids"
Ten Holiday Gifts to Help Homeless Pets
It’s time to buy holiday gifts and send greetings for 2010. You can buy gifts and help homeless pets at the same time. Following are some ways you and your family can help animal shelters and rescue groups during the holiday season.
18Nov2009 | Continued
Holiday Checklist to Help Homeless Pets
With the holidays just around the corner, take advantage of this season of giving to help homeless pets find their forever homes. Following are some ideas you can use to raise money for your animal shelter or rescue, find more homes for homeless animals, and involve kids in helping the pets in your community.
21Oct2009 | Continued
List Your Shelter or Rescue in Online Guides and Directories
Increase the chances of donors or potential pet owners finding your animal shelter or rescue group online. Get listed on as many animal rescue and animal shelter directories as possible. Also list your shelter or rescue in any breed specific guides if your group specializes in a specific type of rescue, such as a small dog rescue. Animal loving kids can help their local shelters get listed in these directories.
20Oct2009 | Continued
Earn a Cash Grant for Your Animal Shelter or Rescue
You can help your animal shelter or rescue win cash grants just by voting in the Shelter Challenge sponsored by the Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder.com. This contest runs until December 20th. Continue reading for the details of the program and ways you can ask your community to vote.
6Oct2009 | Continued
Finding Homes for Homeless Pets Using Email
Most animal shelters feature pets available for adoption on their website. But sending email newsletters to showcase adoptable pets is another good way to reach animal lovers. Shelters can include a section on adoptable pets in a general newsletter or set up an email newsletter just for adoptable pets. Animal lovers can volunteer to send a newsletter on their own on behalf of homeless pets. Continue reading to get more ideas on how to do this.
9Sep2009 | Continued
Holiday Adoption and Fundraising Ideas for Homeless Pets
Animal shelters, animal rescues and animal lovers should start planning now the holiday rundraising and adoption activities for homeless pets. Following is a list of things you can do right now to get ready for holiday events. Think of ways to include families, kids and singles in establishing holiday traditions that can be repeated in years to come.
9Sep2009 | Continued
How Kids Can Increase Black Pet Adoptions
Statistics show that black dogs and cats are often the last to be adopted and in many shelters are euthanized more frequently. Kids can become black pet ambassadors. They can develop activities specifically for black pet adoption at school, church, the local shelter, kids’ sports’ teams, etc. Examples could include the following:
23Aug2009 | Continued
Increase Adoptions by Improving Your Website Adoption Pages
Potential pet owners may prescreen adoptable pets online first before visiting the shelter. Each pet needs his own very appealing “brochure” that shines and says “I’m yours.”
If you have several shelters in your area, check what others are doing to be sure your adoption pages are as appealing as theirs. Shelters can ask a team of volunteers to focus on this very important part of the shelter website. Kids with computer and digital photography skills would be excellent volunteers for this project. Establish a special team of animal loving kids to take responsibility for this effort. Use the following ideas to find more forever homes:
9Aug2009 | Continued
